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in 2012

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moved to Dallas we got kids grandkids

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here and uh got up one morning I

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couldn't bear weight on my right knee

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and I went to the VA hospital I get all

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my medical care for the veterans

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administration

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and they x-rayed my knee

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and when they did they found a foreign

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object in my name

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there's an object a square object about

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the size of a fingernail with two wires

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attached

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uh that's above my right knee and then

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below my right knee in my calf muscle

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was a collection of bones in a floret

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and the Radiologists had no idea what

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those were

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and uh

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he said you know you had to be in some

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kind of accident you know you

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to get this for an object above your

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knee I don't know how that got into your

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body there has to be a scar and we got

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into this back and forth because I told

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him doctor I don't have a scar I've

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never injured that knee other than skin

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me as a kid and he examined my knee and

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there is no Scar and he looked

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confounded he looked stunned and I said

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well doctor let me ask you how often is

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it that you see someone with a foreign

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object like this in their body and

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they're not b a corresponding scar

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it's never he said I've been a

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radiologist for 23 years he says I have

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no idea how this thing got into your

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so

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I asked him to show me the x-rays he

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showed me the x-rays

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and I was just absolutely devastated

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um because I was trying to I thought

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that I had lived this all out

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and it was for the most part over with

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um

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I had no intention to telling anybody

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anything

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but seeing these things just validated

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that they put their hands on me these

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things put their hands on me that it

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wasn't just a sighting I just didn't

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just see a flying saucer there was

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something more intimate to this

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encounter

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and uh

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I

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going to tell people what happened to me

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and I I couldn't do that if I were

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working for the government I mean and my

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peers in the legal Community uh

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you know it was interesting a couple of

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them were supportive of me

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you know I believe you you know you're

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not the kind of guy to tell

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a tale

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but I had a lot of my friends emailed me

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like what is wrong with you have you

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lost your mind

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if this really happened to you why would

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you come out and say such a thing you

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know people think you're crazy blah blah

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blah well you know so be it you know

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Find Out Who Your Friends really are

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but I'm glad I came forward I I'm

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shocked that

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I expected to sell a hundred books you

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know and have a box of 50 in my garage

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or something I expected it to be a

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cathartic experience which it was

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what I didn't expect was to sell tens of

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thousands of copies in 13 countries and

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all of these people email me

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uh

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with these stories and you know pour

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their heart out to me and say I've never

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told this to another human being and

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they tell me their story

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and uh that's a privilege

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to have people share that with you